The mechanism behind environmental inequality in Scotland: Which came first, the deprivation or the landfill?

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 223-240

  Richardson, Elizabeth A ^a   Shortt, Niamh K ^a   Mitchell, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; GIS; LAND USE LOCATION; LANDFILL; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RESEARCH WORK; WIND DIRECTION;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 74349109056     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a41376     Document Type: Article

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